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Monday 2nd Sept: MATCH WRAP MONDAY - Newcastle vs Spurs Review
24 Plays9 months ago
Today Scott Duke-Giles and Charlie Pope discuss Tottenham's disappointing defeat away to Newcastle.
They tackle questions like why do Tottenham keep missing chances? How can they control games and still lose? What is the reason for the current defensive frailties we see in the side?
Want to have your say on the mighty Spurs? Contact us at @GSPNTottenham
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Transcript
Introduction and Recent Game Discussion
00:00:10
officialgspn
Hey, hello and welcome to the Daily Tottenham Podcast from the Global Sports Podcast Network, the place where we talk Tottenham every single weekday. I'm Scott Duke-Giles.
00:00:20
Charlie
And I'm Charlie Poop.
00:00:22
officialgspn
Alright, and if you did not watch Tottenham vs Newcastle yesterday, maybe you can tell from, I guess, I don't think we sound too flat, but um I guess kind of the what the kind of somber tones of our voice, Charlie. um What the result was, unlike recent seasons, Tottenham were not battered or outclassed by a better Newcastle team.
00:00:41
officialgspn
but rather we saw our team control the game and come away empty-handed.
Match Stats and Analysis
00:00:45
officialgspn
Charlie and I will give our reactions and do a deep dive into the game and remember you can have your say at GSP and Tottenham on all social media.
00:00:53
officialgspn
ah Charlie, do you love stats?
00:00:57
Charlie
I do. I do love stats.
00:00:58
officialgspn
Okay, good.
00:00:58
Charlie
Especially, in a sense, stats I do love. um But losing stats aren't the good ones.
00:01:01
officialgspn
Okay, but tell me if you like any of these stats. ah They're not the good ones. But tell me if you like any of these stats that I'm going to open the show with here. Tottenham had 66% possession, had 20 shots to Newcastle's nine, had six shots on target to Newcastle's three. I think this is the big one. Had 49 touches in newcastle Newcastle's box compared to 14 Newcastle touches in Spurs' box. Do you like those stats?
00:01:29
Charlie
How do we like those apples? Those stats practically show you the problem we had last year and the problem we still have is we don't finish our ah chances. When we used to have cane up top, consistency, we will remember it very well, but that was consistency and we had all those chances.
00:01:42
officialgspn
I remember it well.
00:01:48
Charlie
We actually didn't create as many chances that we used to with cane under Nuno, under Conte, under Maria. But when we had them, we was clinical. Now, you see when we don't have a clinical striker, how it is.
00:01:59
Charlie
And I think today, same as same as the Leicester game opening of the season, even against Everton, it could have been 7-0, you know? Just not clinical. And the guy we brought in, who never gets injured, is out injured.
00:02:12
officialgspn
Yeah, that's good. That's good stuff though. no
00:02:12
Charlie
So, I honestly think, that's a stat, Sri Lanka were not injured once last season, 38 games, comes to spurs, ah, Dr.
00:02:21
Charlie
Tottenham.
00:02:21
officialgspn
Yeah.
00:02:21
Charlie
But no, I honestly think, with those stats, it just shows you one thing, bury your chances, take them. Because Newcastle, They had them two chances, bang, bang, bang, and listen
Tottenham's Performance Review: Scoring and Defense
00:02:33
officialgspn
Yeah, it was disappointing. um If you missed the game, um yeah, I guess, ah to summarise it very, very quickly, Tottenham were excellent for a period in the first half, and that was after the linesmen went down with ah with an injury, which ah kind of prompted my dad to say the game is gone, as if, like, linesmen have only kind of just started getting it.
00:02:34
Charlie
to me.
00:02:50
officialgspn
I don't know where he's coming from with that comment. um That was quite good.
00:02:53
Charlie
I just got, um the lines were getting injured now.
00:02:56
officialgspn
yeah maybe Maybe it's because i know the football is all counter-attacking, they have to run more.
00:03:00
Charlie
Yeah I don't know.
00:03:02
officialgspn
and' um Anyway, Tottenham were excellent for a period and then Harvey Barnes scored in the 37th minute for Newcastle. um There was a change at half-time where Pat Matassar came off and Brennan Johnson came on and so we looked exceptional after half-time.
00:03:16
officialgspn
Audubare had a ah quite embarrassing miss from a Johnson deflected cross. Poirot's cross came off the bar, which was a very fortunate and a bit of a freak goal. um And then this was all kind of in the two minutes before Dan Byrne turned an own goal into his net in 56 minutes.
00:03:34
officialgspn
um Madison then forced Pope into a good save from a shot from range and Johnson had a good opportunity with a chance on the half volley. And there were so many attackers on the pitch for Tottenham, it all felt very, very exciting. And then there was the Newcastle breakaway goal where Tottenham were, I don't know about you Charlie, but the most wide open I've ever seen our defence in recent times. And the worst thing was after that, we really didn't look like scoring again. I think that was the same in the Leicester game,
00:04:04
officialgspn
where after Leicester equalised, we looked completely flat, as if we'd given so much and hadn't scored, then they scored, wins were out of our sails. Is that how you sort of read the game as well, Charlie? Was there anything I missed about it in there?
00:04:18
Charlie
you covered it if you look on paper if you didn't tell me the score of the game and you just said this is what it was i say we must have came away with a 3-1 nope we didn't um it is just down to being clinical we had so many chances that wilson chance head it in please why are you meing it renan johnson as well
00:04:38
officialgspn
yeah yeah
00:04:43
Charlie
but The worst thing is we have all these attackers on the pitch and we just, they can't be calm. I don't know what it is. For me, Madison should step up more. He's one of the senior figures in the team.
00:04:54
Charlie
And yeah, you can get your assists from corners or free kicks, whatever, but I don't know what Madison is really bringing to the team at the minute. It sounds crazy to say, but if you ask me what Madison's bringing, yeah.
00:05:02
officialgspn
Yeah, yeah. Hmm.
00:05:07
Charlie
there were some chances he was creating at the start of last season. When he was at Leicester, those sort of, if we take it really back, those Christian Ericsson chances, you know, where he's pinging the ball wide, spreading the plate, getting in and move quicker. He dwindles on the ball a bit too much, and you see Berghul came off for 10 minutes, and when he's got it, he's pinging it out to the wings. And I'm like, matters, you've got that in your locker, get it moving quicker, ping it wide, and we get it in the box. But I also think us not having that focal point in Richie or Salanke,
00:05:36
Charlie
I know we've not seen much with Salanke, but going off what he's been at Bournemouth is that big man up front who can hold the plate, win jewels. Yeah. And it's a hard one. And it's, I see progress though, in the team as annoying as it is that we've lost all three games this season.
00:05:52
Charlie
We should have won. Um, we're creating so many chances defensively. We're good. If you look at city, how many clean sheets do they even keep? Cause all they do is attacking for the wall.
00:06:00
officialgspn
Yeah, that was a crazy sight I saw the other day that in their kind of period of dominance now where they've won the How many times are I three times in a row? They haven't had they've had like a very small proportion of these games to clean sheets. It's a wonder.
Player Focus: Roles and Improvements
00:06:14
officialgspn
It's a good point. Yeah
00:06:15
Charlie
And if you did catch the West Ham Man City game the other night, the amount of chances West Ham had when it could have been a free-free. So you can look to City and say that they still get chances, but they take, they they they can see chances, but they take theirs. And that's all we need to do because I think the football playing is good. I see progression on regression under Ange. I just think some of the players need to take responsibility. You know, you're in a Premier League team.
00:06:42
Charlie
but play like it. Um, Brendan Johnson, he's 23. He's one of the senior players, which is crazy because it's such a young, young team. I think Madison needs to step up and not step up in a crazy way.
00:06:54
Charlie
I think we're playing very well, but I just think it, after the international break, when we've got Solanke and Richardis and Peck, which is ridiculous, we finally have two strikers and they're both injured.
00:07:04
Charlie
I don't know how that happens. I want to see a run of games where we've got a striker to aim for and just, yeah, hopefully do well.
00:07:05
officialgspn
Yeah.
00:07:10
Charlie
But one thing I will say, Drag you Sin. We'll come up to him later. Unbelievable.
00:07:14
officialgspn
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So yeah, but're we're going to come up to that in part two when we talk more about the defense. But under kind of positives for this game, which i thought I thought we could tackle now, because it feels quite nice to think about it, um you kind of covered a bit of our approach to the game where we have this attacking mindset.
00:07:23
Charlie
Yeah, of course.
00:07:29
officialgspn
And as I said in the introduction, we've been kind of walked over at St. James's Park the last couple of seasons, which has been all horrible. And for this game, you know we went into the right way.
00:07:39
officialgspn
And we had periods where it was really exciting. We were on top. um And a lot of that, I think, you mentioned his name, was down to Johnson coming off the bench. And so I think he got a lot of love from the commentators of the game on Sky. I think also lots lots of Tottenham fans' reaction I've been saying is saying, this is what we know he can maybe he can do. And um it's quite frustrating when he starts games and you can almost see the confidence kind of dissipate out of him. It's really, yeah, is is I guess that's the thing with young win wingers. I think we might have seen it happen to Odebert today, but we will come on to that.
00:08:12
officialgspn
um What are your thoughts towards Johnson specifically now?
00:08:13
Charlie
Thank you.
00:08:15
officialgspn
You mentioned that it would be easier when there's a striker in the team, but would you like to see him start? Do you think he's good coming off the bench? What do you think?
00:08:21
Charlie
I honestly, I think it changes completely. Once we do have a striker, you finally can put Sun out on the left. And then you've got the right wing of, you've, you can throw Kulesky there, you can throw Johnson there, or you can put Wilson there. And I think it's having those three to challenge for those places. Cause Kulesky can also push Madison for his place or even Papsar for instance. But I like Brendan Johnson. I think there's a player there.
00:08:48
Charlie
But I honestly think it comes down to, can he discover that player? You know, it's it's honestly down to him. Because as players, I think you look at players that have gone overseas, it hasn't worked out, and but they've worked hard, someone like Sri Lanka, the amount of times they didn't work out Liverpool, they didn't work out at Chelsea, but he said, look, I'll take it to Bournemouth, and he finally got it. They had last season where he banged, and I think it's down to the players to be like, how much do I want this and can I improve it? Because I think that if you look what Brendan Johnson has, he has pace,
00:09:17
Charlie
He's got power. He can do it. It's his confidence and can he back himself? That's, that's what it comes down to.
00:09:23
officialgspn
Yeah, I think that's um that's absolutely true. And do you feel the same about Odibear? Because ever there were points today, and this is this is all bear in mind, that we've seen this lad play two games.
00:09:35
officialgspn
I don't think I've seen him play a lot for Burnley, although I did kind of recognize his name, but I didn't see him play for Burnley.
00:09:35
Charlie
yeah
00:09:40
officialgspn
Anyway, it was strange watching him today, or and a little bit um kind of oh kind of upsetting and a little bit cringing at times, because you could see him get the ball in these really good positions.
00:09:52
officialgspn
And he's someone who ah works really hard to get the ball back, which is very, you know, is very and down the wing.
00:09:58
Charlie
Yes.
00:09:58
officialgspn
And yeah he was like kind of tackling people and um yeah, getting on the boys really quick, which is all very exciting stuff. But I think that miss really threw him. And it's absolutely if you see it a few more times, there's a bad miss.
00:10:09
officialgspn
I want to kind of get into this situation where I kind of say I would have scored. But like um if if the quantum leap happened, Charlie, like like zero point two seconds before he makes contact with the wall, I actually would have scored.
00:10:21
officialgspn
I think. Anyway, um do you think that persisting with Oda Bear in the starting lineup is a good call for someone so young and someone who clearly has a lot of talent, but on days like today where you know chances are so important to take, he seemed to falter a little bit?
00:10:38
Charlie
I think days like today are key to like the mentality of, cause he came through the PSG academy. He's obviously played with very good players in his career. So he's only 19, but he's been around talent and he might look at today thinking, damn, this, this could have been me. I could have cemented my place, got that goal. It's now down to him to be like, okay, I can put myself in those positions. Let me improve and back myself. So if he can take it in his stride, he can make that right wing. He's, you know, and then you've got someone like Brennan to come off the bench.
00:11:09
Charlie
um But he's young, he's 19, he's second season in the prem and it's a step up from Burnley to Tottenham and you can you can see he's got the work rate, he's got desire to win the ball and if it clicks you've got a very good player there because you see the way he can dribble, the way he wants to take players on but I also think for him and Brennan not having someone to aim for in the box as a winger just probably makes your life very hard because it's like okay i can put the ball in which i'm really good at but who's there and then they're caught in these two minds oh i'll just go backwards and then it goes back and sideways and sideways and it's like okay um just put draggy sin up front like most san
00:11:45
officialgspn
yeah
00:11:46
officialgspn
you know that that was like genuinely i was thinking that is like such a mature and well thought out and really well articulated answer in in response to my quantum leap kind of suggestion and then he's gone and said he'll put dragison up front which is quite good um
00:11:46
Charlie
um
00:11:53
Charlie
yeah
00:11:56
Charlie
ah Sometimes I choose. Yeah. I
Football Networks and Newcastle's Strategy
00:12:02
Charlie
can tell you now, it can't always be I choose.
00:12:04
officialgspn
Yeah, beat yeah this is this is what we're about and at Daily Tottenham. You get the best of both worlds. um Before we do a deeper dive and talk about Newcastle and um ah we we kind of strap ourselves in for talking about our defence, let me tell you that this podcast is part of the Global Sports Podcast Network, the only network bringing you exclusive daily news and views on your Premier League team, the Premier League, women's football and fantasy football.
00:12:28
officialgspn
A unique listening experience that puts fans first, bringing you the very latest breaking news from your team. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and make us your first listen every day. Global sports podcast, every club, every day. So Charlie, I know like the Newcastle fans rather don't listen to us, or if they do, well thank you, but like why?
00:12:47
officialgspn
um And ah would you like to have a word on how they played? Because I think it's quite an an interesting thing to talk about in terms of a reaction to how ah the Ang style that I think a lot of teams are copying.
00:12:59
officialgspn
Newcastle were absolutely fine sitting back against us when we had control of the ball and didn't look that threatening in periods of the game and think, oh, we'll get a chance on the counter-attack. They were right. um Yeah, what do you think about Newcastle in this game?
00:13:10
Charlie
I think Newcastle, not in a disrespectful way, were very lucky today Tottenham couldn't finish. It actually reminded me of watching old Tottenham under someone like Conte or Nuno.
00:13:22
Charlie
Do you know like, but do you remember the amount of chances we used to concede, but somehow we would catch him on the break at Nico 2-1.
00:13:22
officialgspn
Hmm.
00:13:28
officialgspn
Yeah.
00:13:29
Charlie
And today it felt like watching that counter-attacking Nuno, Conte, Tottenham team, even Mourinho. Like remember Man City when we would concede, what, 30 chances against them?
00:13:40
Charlie
But we go on the your other end, Kouliszewski saw someone with a score.
00:13:40
officialgspn
and
00:13:44
Charlie
And it was always that way. And today, I think Newcastle, I don't think they defended particularly well. How many chances did they concede? I think we had like seven, eight shots on target. So and another day we're putting them in the back of the net and I said, it's three, one, four, one.
00:13:59
Charlie
So Newcastle were very lucky today, but they took their chances and that's football. Sometimes you haven't got to play well and luck comes your way. And that they was clinical when you got someone like Isaac, who is stats speak for himself and someone like Harvey Barnes, who I think is criminally underrated.
00:14:16
officialgspn
yeah He was injured for a lot of last season.
00:14:17
Charlie
Yeah.
00:14:18
officialgspn
He'll have I think you could have a big season this year for sure Yeah, me too But
00:14:21
Charlie
um no And that's someone I wish we went to sign, someone like that. But I think, yeah, Newcastle were lucky. It's one of those days where they look at the they look at the stats and they're like, how did we nick that?
00:14:33
Charlie
they They're probably laughing at us. They're laughing at us. like We finally give you a chance to beat us when it's not for one and you can't even take your chances. so
00:14:39
officialgspn
Yeah, but before I don't know, I don't want to sound like too much of a kind of contrary voice in all this, but I kind of I wanted to talk about the chance thing because no you can't deny that we kind of controlled that game and we were kind of looks looks so um yeah, we obviously really went for it and had good attacking.
00:14:44
Charlie
um
00:14:56
officialgspn
But I don't think apart from the other bear one.
00:14:57
Charlie
you
00:14:58
officialgspn
And um you know I think that Johnson should have done better with his half-volley one. but A lot of it was the shots were from range. And you'd think of like players like Kuleszewski didn't miss a chance. Son didn't miss a chance. um Johnson didn't really.
00:15:12
officialgspn
and
00:15:13
Charlie
You say but but it's not even it's when you're in the box of decisions were made son had like
00:15:17
officialgspn
Right, that's that's it, yeah.
00:15:19
Charlie
um Dan Byrne came sliding in when Song could have maybe take a chance, put it to the side. There was chances when we was in the box, because I think the stats were we had 44 touches in the box. There's those swims those moments when the the clinical players take it, and those 44 touches in the box equate to two, three, four goals.
00:15:38
Charlie
And when I say chances, it's not just Pope making saves. It's also the amount of corners we had, and we're just not scoring from the All these other things, it's like,
00:15:43
officialgspn
Right, that's it, yeah.
00:15:47
Charlie
We are creating things, we're putting ourselves in the right position, but maybe we're putting the training is working, what we're doing on the training field, but it's just because we don't have the personnel right now. It's probably a different game, as I keep going back to, if Dominic Solanke's playing or with Charleston, you've got someone to aim for, and it changes all those chances, them balls being put in the box. when When I say chances, the amount of times Brendan put a ball in, no one was getting on the end of it.
00:16:12
Charlie
When you have a striker there, the striker instinct is I'm getting my head on that. I'm getting, sliding in whatever. So we had a lot of chances and but we just didn't take it. That's what it is.
00:16:21
officialgspn
I think that's it. That's absolutely right. And I think your definition of like touches in the box. That's a key stat to really look out for in this.
00:16:26
officialgspn
I think that that's, that's, that's that's the big thing because essentially, if you're watching the highlights, you're like, Oh, why is everyone banging on about Tottenham kind of, you know, what are kind of going forward and having all these chances because they're not missing open goals.
00:16:26
Charlie
and see paul
00:16:36
officialgspn
I know what the bet did miss an open goal. But like, ah um I think I was absolutely right. um Let's go from the top of the pitch where we're struggling to convert and create good chance have good chances and create them and all this to ah back in the end of the pitch, the defensive end of the side of things so where I said I've never seen Tottenham look more open than we did when we conceded that second goal.
Tottenham's Defense and Europa League Prospects
00:17:01
officialgspn
um it's What do you kind of think is happening there? Is it a kind of system thing where we're getting caught up, maybe we switch off because we're having so much control? And I also wanted to ask you about Romero because the commentary team highlighted him.
00:17:15
officialgspn
um And it's a funny thing because I think Tottenham fans are quite defensive and quite proud of Romero and probably rightly so. you know He's a World Cup winner. he played He looked like the only player who cared in last year's North London and Derby away Arsenal, which obviously is a big thing for us. um We all really want him to do well. and We know how good he is. But it's undeniable that he's properly switched off for those two goals and also that FIFA cast their minds back to the first game of the season for Leicester. So all three goals we've conceded in the league.
00:17:42
officialgspn
this season, he's kind of had, he's been, you can question him. Yeah. So I know this is, this is now like going to be, require a big answer from you, but is it, what's it with him and what's it with Tottenham?
00:17:53
officialgspn
Is it a lack of concentration? Is it the system? What's going on there?
00:17:57
Charlie
First of all, I'll start i will start with the first thing, but the defense. Defensively, I think we're seeing Udoghi, he didn't have a preseason. He was injured all season. He's coming back from quite a, he had surgery, I think, right?
00:18:10
officialgspn
Yeah.
00:18:10
Charlie
So I think we're seeing a player that hasn't had preseason.
00:18:10
officialgspn
Yeah.
00:18:13
Charlie
Because for me, Udoghi last year was unreal, the physicality, all of that. He's been missing that this year, I think. And then I think Draggy Singh came in, unbelievable today.
00:18:24
Charlie
He didn't put a foot wrong. He actually put the all his feet in the right places.
00:18:28
officialgspn
yeah he was excellent yeah i know yeah
00:18:28
Charlie
Those last-ditch challenges. And this is why I see people online may moaning and saying, oh, Draggy Sin, he's too good for the bench. This is why you have a squad. You look at City's bench, they can bring Akayon, Diaz, Stones, whoever you need.
00:18:41
Charlie
You look at Arsenal, they have about 24 centre backs. They're all very good. But the the reason we have these Players and very good players is because when they come in, they smash it. Because years ago, it was either Davison Sanchez coming on or Eric Dyer and you're like, that's a drop in quality and we're going to concede a lot. But Dragison came in today and it's like, he he's been at the club for years. That's how it felt. I think he was probably our best player today. I think he was unreal. ah Romero, I think he had a good game and I think the whole coming out, actually I'll finish Romero. Let me talk to but about horror.
00:19:17
officialgspn
please yeah
00:19:17
Charlie
Poro for me, I think Poro had another good game.
00:19:19
Charlie
I don't think he's putting the foot wrong. I think ever since those Conte comments, those Tim Sherwood comments, everyone likes to critique him, but I think Poro defensively is improving every week.
00:19:29
Charlie
But attacking wise, he is such a great attacking outlet. He wins us corners from his shots, from his deflected crosses. He is passion, but he's he's got the mentality to just keep going and going and going.
00:19:40
Charlie
He would play play with one leg if he had to.
00:19:41
officialgspn
Please,
00:19:42
Charlie
And I love that. And I think Vaccario, I think he's improving.
00:19:44
officialgspn
yeah.
00:19:46
Charlie
If you look at the start of last season to now, I think he's getting better at coming out of the corners. I still don't think he's the presence he should be, but you can see he's improved. And now Romero. I think Romero, you can look at this two ways.
00:19:59
Charlie
He saw the corner, he's gone out, he's gone to push. And I think he's done very well. It's unlucky he's gone out for a throw and they've taken it quicker than this back in the 18 yard box. But he's pushed out because he's thinking, if I can win this, we're on the counter attack. And that's what And wants press. So it's a collective thing. And I don't think you can blame that on Romero. He wants to win the ball. And I loved it when he was pushing out. I was like, come on. And he's won the throw and I'm like, cool, we can get back to our positions. They put the ball in, they scored. And I also think Madison could have done better on the cross and picked up other man. But I don't think Romero was
00:20:31
Charlie
in my eyes at fault for the goal. He's gone to win the ball, he's done well, he's gone out for a throw and then we just haven't switched on as a team. So he won a lot of challenges today, he was great in the air, he had a ah goal that was offside.
00:20:44
Charlie
So that's another chance if he had the offside goal. So yeah, so I think, I don't think he's having a bad season or anything.
00:20:45
officialgspn
yeah that's true actually yeah
00:20:51
Charlie
I just think he plays with his heart he plays on the edge and playing on the edge will sometimes maybe cause mistakes or make things happen good or bad but it's down to the whole collective to yeah do their thing so it's a hard one but I love Romero I'm not saying he's perfect I don't think there's a perfect player ah um but I think he's got better this disciplinary wise I don't think he picks up any yellows anymore and maybe the lapse in judgment is just because we do play at such a high high pace and I don't know
00:21:10
officialgspn
Yeah, that's true actually, yeah.
00:21:22
Charlie
It's a hard one. It is a hard one, but ah I wouldn't say it was his fault. What about you? Do you think it was his? And obviously the question you posed to me, I'll pose to you about the defense and everything. um
00:21:31
officialgspn
Oh gosh. Yeah, it's tough. I think i think he um yeah it's it's a funny thing with him because we almost expect him to be kind of of this higher plane.
00:21:42
officialgspn
I think after the World Cup, we we met I think we expect way too much of him. I think it's also we're desperate for him to succeed and kind of be a leader because everyone's so because I think opposition fans dislike him quite a lot and so yeah and like a lot of that is brought on by his uh you know how he acts on the pitch which I don't have I don't have a tremendous problem with except when he's when he got sent off at the start but as you say he's kind of stamped that out on the ranch which I've been I didn't expect so
00:21:55
Charlie
hate him
00:22:02
Charlie
yeah
00:22:07
Charlie
yeah
00:22:12
Charlie
And talking about those players you hate, like everyone hates Romero if you're not a Tottenham fan. but Joel Linton, I despise Joel Linton.
00:22:19
officialgspn
Oh, yes, me too.
00:22:20
Charlie
The Newcastle fans will love him. But if you look at every club, nine times out of 10, most clubs will have a player. If he plays for your team, you love him. If he doesn't, you wanna like snap his legs, you honestly despise him.
00:22:32
officialgspn
Absolutely.
00:22:32
Charlie
Most clubs have him, you know.
00:22:34
officialgspn
If you played against Joe Linton at like Hackney Marsh's 11th side, you would not be going to the pub after. You'd be like, I'm not going to the pub with Joe Linton.
00:22:42
Charlie
Hello, hello.
00:22:42
officialgspn
Surely not. um he's he's he's ah yeah he he looks like He's a bully. but And like you know but the whole thing, the clothesline, the keeper, obviously that was bad and Tottenham weren't playing then.
00:22:52
officialgspn
but He just looks like such a nasty piece of work and he's all...
00:22:52
Charlie
Yeah.
00:22:54
officialgspn
yeah ah Anyway.
00:22:54
Charlie
Yeah.
00:22:56
Charlie
you The thing is, you need those arrogant players.
00:23:00
officialgspn
Yeah.
00:23:00
Charlie
You need those hateful, like, oh, I don't like him.
00:23:03
officialgspn
Mm.
00:23:03
Charlie
know You want someone like that. And I think, Romero, I think the defense, I think the right side of the defense today, Dragison and Puro had a great game. I don't think they put a foot wrong.
00:23:14
Charlie
I think it was just, the two goals were just what it was a bit of lapse of judgment from the whole team and then the Isaac goal is just they caught us on the counter and then on the counter yeah I just think this international break has probably come at the best time we've had a draw we've had a win we've had a loss now we haven't played bad in any of the games now it's like come on guys get your stuff together I'm also glad certain players haven't been called up but but I'll leave that to you to talk about but um
00:23:41
officialgspn
Yeah, well, absolutely. And yeah, um ah please contact us at GSPN Tottenham if you have any thoughts on that and the defence because, you know, we've offered a few thoughts and I think i think i think we've covered it quite quite comprehensively and fairly, I think as well.
00:23:55
Charlie
What do you think, what do you think of Fakaria right now?
00:23:57
officialgspn
Go ahead, Charlie.
00:23:59
Charlie
Do you think, like, cause I think as a shot stopper, as a keeper, a ball playing keeper, I think he's great. I think he's really good, but the one thing that is our problem, what I also think we're getting better at is set pieces defensively.
00:24:10
Charlie
Do you think you've seen him?
00:24:12
officialgspn
I take quite a pessimistic line with this, I'm afraid, Charlie. And I do kind of think he's clearly something that he's worked on and he's very conscious of.
00:24:18
Charlie
Yeah.
00:24:20
officialgspn
um But I think to a certain degree, and we saw this with Larisse for a long time as well, you almost kind of never really
00:24:20
Charlie
yeah
00:24:27
officialgspn
get over that, if you're a keeper, the kind of being being vulnerable from corners and set pieces.
00:24:28
Charlie
yeah
00:24:32
officialgspn
And no matter how much work you do on that, that's almost like an ingrained thing. And like as I can't you see this, I like the most basic level of football as well. I'm if anyone's going to play football, you've played with or against keepers, you can't do anything from crosses.
00:24:45
officialgspn
And then this is always just like part of who they are.
00:24:47
Charlie
yeah i'm a keeper so i know what it's like yeah
00:24:48
officialgspn
And I'm not
00:24:51
officialgspn
<unk>t as it means you don't want to go there we can go there but we i don't want to go there um well maybe you can empathize with him then or give us an insight into how he feels when that ball's hurtling towards his head um but i i kind of you know i think the the fact that there's such an awareness of it all of new castle's corners were in the
00:25:00
Charlie
and a no
00:25:09
officialgspn
six-yard box. But hey, let's take a positive approach. We've played three games. No one scored from a set piece. um but One of those games was against a Sean Dyche team, a bad Sean Dyche team, but a Sean Dyche team regardless.
00:25:22
officialgspn
So let's, I don't know, let's kind of wait and see, I think, with that.
00:25:26
Charlie
But you see the improvements.
00:25:26
officialgspn
but
00:25:28
Charlie
There's more catches. There's more Lucario imposing himself.
00:25:29
officialgspn
Sure.
00:25:31
Charlie
And that's what you want from the team, is from every player to get better. you know And if, say, these three games we played, we conceded a goal, and each was a corner or a free kick, then you'd be like, well, Lucario isn't the way.
00:25:44
Charlie
The the defense isn't the way. I think we've improved defensively at set pieces, which is good. So obviously, whatever Andrew's doing and the coach are doing is working. And I think, yeah, we just we keep doing our thing.
00:25:55
officialgspn
Absolutely. We keep doing our thing. Yeah. And ah yeah, as I say, please get in contact with us if you have any opinions on that. Now, do you have a story to tell that the world needs to hear? Have you struggled with reaching new audiences who are engaged with your story? It might be time for you to start a podcast. Let me tell you about a platform we use here at the Global Sports Podcast Network. Zencast that makes it easy to start a high quality podcast built for growth from day one.
00:26:20
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00:26:39
officialgspn
Newcastle and St. James's Park from your mind, get rid of it. Because now we're going to be thinking about Europe. I i mean, yeah, I suppose, you know, we're in Europe ah as ah as as a country. But um we think about the Europa League specifically, which now is an actual league. um And a draw happens on Friday. And can I run you through the fixtures, Charlie, which I'm sure you already know, but I run you through them regardless.
00:27:03
officialgspn
um on And I'm going to be quick. On Thursday 26th of September, we're playing Carabag at home, home of the gale force winds of aljab Azerbaijan. um um Thursday 3rd of October, we're playing Ferran Vakos, who are from Budapest. Thursday 24th of October, AZ Outmar at home. Thursday 7th of November, Galatasaray away. Thursday 28th of November, Roma at home.
00:27:27
officialgspn
ah Thursday 12th of December, Rangers Away. Thursday 23rd of January, Hoffenheim Away, which I'm going to go to with my friends. um Thursday 30th of January, Elfsburg, whoever they are at home. um Charlie, what do you make of this draw and which games are you really excited for, I guess?
00:27:44
Charlie
You can say the Rangers, you can say the Roma, obviously the standouts, but I think all the games are going to be fun. I think the lesser known teams are going to be wicked because I think that's a chance for us to actually let players like Lancsia, let more divine, let somebody else's really step in and just go tear it up and show why they should probably be playing over someone like maybe Brennan Johnson or whoever, you know. That's what it's about. And I think someone like Bergvall, once he starts getting a run of games in the Europa League and the FA Cup and the League Cup,
00:28:13
Charlie
you're gonna start seeing Madison probably get pushed for his position, you know? Because I think he needs to get pushed. And I think this is good why he hasn't been called out for England, because Madison needs to pull it up, man, and show us what he's about. We're going back to the Europa League. I think the draw is really good. I think it's got a good mix of good quality teams, teams that are on a level that's still gonna push us, and the unknown. Are they good or they bad? Is it a 6-0 win, or is it a, ah, we've conceded to this European team with six-foot-six defenders, and Vaccario's gonna catch a ball. Is it gonna do that?
00:28:44
Charlie
Um, but no, it's a good draw. I think it's a really fun one. I'm excited to see how this league plays out. Um, and when he was reading out going on till January 30th, I'm like, but one get really expensiveive and when did the knockout start next year?
00:28:53
officialgspn
Yeah, it's a long time. it' a long That feels like a long time way.
00:28:59
Charlie
Like next season?
00:28:59
officialgspn
We'll be two completely different men by then.
00:29:02
Charlie
Yeah. yeah ah Oh my God. Um, it's a, it's a really good draw and I just want us to please this year. I could care less about top four. i want I want to finish as high as possible, but I look at the Europa League, and looking at Man United lose 3-0 today, they don't look amazing.
00:29:18
officialgspn
Oh god no.
00:29:19
Charlie
Obviously, we lost 2-1, but we didn't look as bad as they looked. We actually got play. We got we got we got rhythm, you know? But, yeah, it's it's a hard one. So, let's progress, and I'm excited.
00:29:31
officialgspn
That's progress.
00:29:32
Charlie
I think we can take the Europa League, and it's just like us, but it's fancy thinking they can do this. I honestly think this is our best chance in a long time You look at the teams, there's no one dropping down from the Champions League.
00:29:42
Charlie
There's no Seville. There's no Afletico Madrid. There's no one coming in. No Spanish teams always want to win it. This is our chance to be like, let's go and do this. So, and I think we've got players in that team that are going to be looking at that.
00:29:51
officialgspn
yeah
00:29:56
Charlie
As I said, players like Mikey Moore, players like Bergvall, even Wilson, ah Oderberg. then There's so many names I could say, even Jed Spence, you know.
00:30:06
officialgspn
yeah
00:30:06
Charlie
There's a lot of players that are probably looking at that thinking, this is my chance to say, yeah, I'm taking your position. I'm making this mine. And I think it's going to be really good for us, you know? um Yeah. How about yourself? What are you feeling about it?
Europa League Excitement and Player Development
00:30:19
officialgspn
Yeah, me too. i think I think it's like I've been quite excited about it. um Partly because it's not the Wi-Fi coterie of the Europa Conference League where you're playing teams whose kind of names you couldn't get tattooed on your arm because you'd run out of arm. um as i a playing teams yeah I've heard of most of these teams. I don't know who else Borg are. um I had to look up where Ferret and Vakos are from.
00:30:42
officialgspn
um but you know
00:30:42
Charlie
Well, that's enough.
00:30:43
officialgspn
yeah yeah but like but there's serious teams in here you know i mean uh you know galatasaray away is awesome um i mean i won't be going because i was too scared but um roamer at home will be will be cool and yeah i think i think as you say it's a great i mean let's we forget I mean, people are um when um kind of 2014, the year 2014, we were in the midst of it and Adebayor was starting up top for Tottenham.
00:31:10
officialgspn
Kane was playing in the Europa League before he was playing in the league, right?
00:31:13
Charlie
There you go.
00:31:13
officialgspn
And so this is, yeah, there we go. So this is ah definitely something to be excited about. um And yeah, I think you've summed up the ambitions perfectly. Harry Radnap famously said it's the hardest competition to win because it's better for a club like Tottenham because people expect them to win it once you're in it and it's not easy.
00:31:30
officialgspn
but hey let's come on you we can properly give this a go and as you say ah rightly man united a terrible um so it would be good um please oh please ask hmm that's
00:31:37
Charlie
I've got a question for you. regarding Europe League, I think this is a good one that won't be in your notes. Out of all the players we've got, is there someone you, obviously everyone will say Mikey Morby, is there one player you just hope shines fast in Europe League?
00:31:49
officialgspn
a good question i think um i like
00:31:54
Charlie
the we We all want to see Mikey Morby, what we think he's going to be, but that's the easy answer. Is there a player you think, maybe not you would like to, or do you think, oh my god, he's he's definitely got it, he's going to shine. Is there a player you think has that?
00:32:08
officialgspn
Yeah, I think Grey would be my answer to that.
00:32:11
officialgspn
I think Grey would get a nice time to play in the Europa League. I think he's 18, which is ridiculous. And he also looks he really looks like an 18-year-old as well. like he hasn't got He hasn't got the car-new kind of thing going on where he's like, God, he must be at least 33.
00:32:11
Charlie
o Yeah.
00:32:25
officialgspn
He looks so young.
00:32:25
Charlie
Yeah.
00:32:27
officialgspn
And I think hearing my friends who are Leeds fans, I've got ah two good friends who are Leeds fans, and I was messaging them about him. And they were saying, oh, he's just absolutely unbelievable. And they were so jealous that he's now with us. And so, yeah, I think, yeah, definitely Archie Gray would be would be my answer to that. And I think, as you say, he'd maybe locked down that defensive midfielder spot. I mean, we're not exactly short for people there, but ah I mean, you know.
00:32:51
officialgspn
Yeah, if you can surpass Passuma, that would be um it be an interesting thing to see. um Please also do let us know, get in contact with us if you have any thoughts about that. But that is it for today. um Please listen later on in the week where we'll be doing more stuff about all things Tottenham, where we're looking at wildcard things, um more previews and crossovers. And so remember, you can have your say at GSPN Tottenham on all social media. Plus, if you're enjoying the pod, please do remember to give us a review, a nice one.
00:33:21
officialgspn
as it does really help other fans other Spurs fans, ideally, find us. um yeah We don't want other fans coming over to us and giving us a tremendous amount of hate. um Thanks for listening to the Daily Tottenham Podcast.
00:33:32
officialgspn
I've been Scott Duke-Giles.
00:33:34
Charlie
And I've been Charlie Pope.
00:33:36
officialgspn
Thank you so much. Goodbye.